Building brick or block.



J. SOSS.

BUILDING BRICK OR BLOUK- APPLICATION? LED DEC 1 1906 Patented. Nov. 17,1908v INVEIV 7'01? mwmssses Minn/ms- Josurn soss, or New YORK, N. Y.

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To all whom it may. concern: Be it known that I, J osnrn Soss, a citizenof the United States, and,residing at New York, in the county of NewYork and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Imrovementsin Building Bricks or Blocks, of which the following is aspecification, such as will enable those skilledin the art to which itappertains to make and use 0 the same.

Thisinvention relates to building bricks or blocks, of the class knownas interlocking building bricks or'blocks, and the object of mimprovement is to provide bricks or blocks 0 this class of improved formwhereby the said bricks or blocks when placed together in a wall insuccessive layers or courseswill be interlocked m such manner as tosecurely hold them together, said form'being such as to present noobstacle; to an r even 'and thorough calcining in a kiln and also to.prevent the warping or bending by reason of unequal expansmn orcontraction while 'go-l ing through the purpose of calcining;

another object being to provide bricks or blocks of theclass describedwhich do not possess pointed" rojections which are liable to be broken 0in transportation and also interfere with a thorough and even calciningin the kiln; and with these and other objects. in view the inventionconsists in building bricks or blocks constructed as hereinafterdescribed and as pointed out in the. appended claims.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, ofwhich the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate partsof my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters ineach of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a view showing my improvedbuilding brick or block in elevation; Fig. 2

a plan view of the brick or block shown in Fig.1; Fig. 3 an end view ofthe brick or block shown in Fig. 2; Fig. i a section on the line 12-12of Fig. l; and, Fig. 5 a perspcctive view showing the bricks or blocksshown in Figs. 1 to inclusive, applied as a casing to a metal column ina fireproof struc-' ture or building.

In the practice of my invention, reference being made to theconstruction shown in- Figs. 1 to 5', inclusive, I provide an oblongrectangular brick a of the same general form and dimensions as theaverage building brick, and said brick is provided with fourSpecification of Letters Patent. Application filed December i, 1906.Serial No. 345,384.

.Iatented Nov. 17, 1908.

plane surfaces, namely the opposite ends and the opposite narrower sidesbeing all planesurfaces, the opposite widersides of thebedding surfacesof the brick are provided with corresponding regularly spaced elevationsand depressions, said elevations and depressions being. arrangedlongitudinally of said surfaces and transversely and at 'right anglesthereto the elevations and-depressions being alternately arranged bothin the transverse and longitudinal rows. r I

In order tdmamtam an even thickness throughout the brick and to insure aproper interlocking of thebricks-in a wall' or other structure thedepressions 0 on one side of the b'rickare placed concentrically to andoppo- .sitefthe elevations b on the opposite side "thereof, and-thenormal thickness of the Qbrick-is :th'efdis'tancebctween the top of anelevation-on one sidethoreof and the greatest depth-of depression onthe'other side, and the --said+br1ck is thus made of the sametransversethickne'ss at any point through which it may be measured, thisformation being clearly indicated in the various figures of thedrawings. From these (it '"ings it will beseen that the elevations anddepressions follow and merge into each "other, and

that there is no surface of other character in 'tervening between them.

In Fig. 5, I have shown the method of placing a number of my improvedbricks or blocks in a wallrand for this purpose, 1 cmploy foot or basebricks or blocks a which 7 are provided on one side only withalternately arranged and transverse and longitudinal rows of elevationsand depressions but all the bricks of the wall above the foot or basebricks (4 are made as hereinlxefore described and as shown in Figs. 1 toinclusive, and these bricks may. be placed as shown in Fig. 5 wherejoints are broken in the usual manner or the said bricks will locktogether in'almost any position where placed at right angles to orlongitudinally of each other.

In practice, I prefer to n'iake the depressions slightly larger than theexact theoretical complement of the corresponding eleva-' 'tions, theobject being to provide space for a slight additional amount of mortarat these points and also to allow the brick-layer to diverge somewhatfrom an exact straight alinement in the case ofbuilding up walls on acurvature with a large radius but for ordinary purposes the elevationsand depressions power of thebric Figs. 1 to 5 inclusive,

25. tu'dinal' rows of alternately tionsfand depressions. The

bedding nated by the reference character 9 while the depressions aredesi ated by the reference. character It. In this elevations anddeipressions are both pyramistruction shown, arranged longitudinallythereof or inother words the bricks or blocks are madehollow whichconstruction decreases the material and weight without materiallydecreasin the strength or resisting is or blocks.

The improved brick or block f as shown in is of the same dimensions andeneral form .as shown in m former app lcation No. 317,001, and the brickor blockrf also provided the bedding surfaces -thereof w1th transverseand longiarranged elevasurfaces of the brick f are desigorm ofconstruction, the

dal in shape or orm. and the apex thereof is removed. In this form willbe seen that the lines surfaces of this form of brick are all straightlines and ,the elevations are provided with of construction, it

- four faces as are also the depressions, and these faces of theelevations or depressions are allof the same shape and dimensions,

' said faces being oblong and provided with ends. 7

y improved building bricks or blocks may be used for many urposes forwhich ordinary bricks qr bloc are not adapted and by .meansthereof astrong, substantial elevationson the 4 tudmally of. the bedding anddurable wallor floor and ceiling or arch construction may be quickly,easily and conveniently formed, and walls or fioor and ceiling or archconstruction made from bricks or blocks of this class will not be soeasily destroyed by the vibrations or sagging of foundations as when"ordinary bIlCkS or blocks are used in the construction..thereof.-

Having fully described. my invention, what I claim'as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is:-

' 1. A building brick or block having two bedding surfaces entirelycomposed of elevations of the same size and form and correspondingdepressions, said elevations and depressions being arranged alternatelyin rows extending longitudinally of the brick and transversely and atright angles thereto, a depression following an elevation, and anelevation following a depression in each row, the; one merging into theother without any intervening surface of other character, the elevationsof one side being opposite depressions of the other, producing a brickof uniform thickness, substantially as described.

2. building brick or block having two bedding surfaces each entirely.composed of elevations of a square truncated pyramidalform andcorresponding depressions, arranged alternatelyin rows extending.longiand transverselyat right angles to the longer sides, the elevationsand depres-- sions'merging the one into the other, and each elevation ofone side being opposed to a brick of uniform as described.

In testimon that I claim the foregoingas my invention 1 have signed myname in pres ence of the subscribing witnesses this 28th day of November1906.

thickness, substantially JOSEPH SOSS.

Witnesses:

C.E. MULREANY, PAUL BARTELT.

a depression on the opposite side, producing"

